E. Christian Brugger reports on the dark side of the infertility industry . The woman whose body is over-stimulated to produce eggs “might suffer excruciating abdominal pain, blood clots, infections, kidney failure, loss of her ovaries, shock, and, in rare cases, death.” And “if . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama has been tireless in speaking about and promoting religious tolerance. Our religious diversity, he contends, is a source of our strength, so long as we act in accordance with our heritage of religious toleration. Here’s how he put it in his Inaugural Address : . . . . Continue Reading »
It amazes me how media so often can’t—or won’t—connect the dots. In the Australian state of Queensland, the government is being accused of scandalously underfunding palliative care. From the story:TERMINALLY ill patients are being left to die in Queensland . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of months ago I asked whether William Wilberforce, the eighteenth century abolitionist and hero to modern evanglecals, was complicit in the practice of slavery in Africa. Today, Ted Olsen at Christianity Today follows up on the story and provides more details: Every successful . . . . Continue Reading »
After Washington voters unwisely legalized assisted suicide, I said the battle wasn’t over. I reported that many hospitals and doctors had decided to refuse all participation in doctor prescribed death, and encouraged them to do so. That made assisted suicide advocates angry, but . . . . Continue Reading »
CNN’s Belief blog has some good quotes from the co-authors of the book Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture . Carson Mencken says conservative Christians tend not to think too much about UFOs and Bigfoot: The people . . . . Continue Reading »
Denier tools of Big Oil!Why we are going to . . . . Continue Reading »
American culture seems to be most interested in who God isn’t. Many hold that claims made about God put him in a box and because we really can’t know anything about him (so they say) we should avoid claiming any knowledge of or about him. Of course, that argument works for less than 10 . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Nobel Prize That Wasn’t , today’s second “On the Square” feature, our managing editor Mary Rose Somarriba explains why “why this year’s Nobel Prize for the discovery of IVF represents a failure.” Aimed at creating fertilized embryos, IVF destroys many . . . . Continue Reading »
Walker Percy: A Documentary Film will be playing at the New Orleans Film Festival on October 17th and 20th. (The site includes a short clip from the movie.) . . . . Continue Reading »
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